the black fucking death happened and my population went from almost 5.4 million to 1.5 million and it’s still fucking dropping by 70k per week. This is one of the most punishing game events I’ve ever seen in something like this, what the fuck, I even had hospitals built in all my fucking cities so what the fuck paradox? christ
people are still dying. It was -500k a month for like half a year
The central Mexican indigenous empires were obliterated by a combination of civil war and disease before any sizable European colonizer populations had moved in. Cortez “conquered” the Aztecs in the sense that the remnants of the remnants of what were left surrendered to him as the most heavily armed surviving army.
The Europeans then brutalized the survivors beyond imagination, but the vast majority of the deaths occurred before then.